May was not a good month for Stateline casinos, which saw revenues drop 15.12 percent to $13.7 million compared to 2015. The Gaming Control Board today said Nevada casinos won more than $958 million in May. This is 4.53 percent drop from a year ago. Most of the state saw numbers decline. — Lake Tahoe […]
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A Truckee man was arrested this week on felony domestic violence and felony false imprisonment charges. Officers said they found a woman crying and bleeding from her mouth on June 27 at 7:30pm outside a residence on Trout Creek Road. She told officers her live-in boyfriend, Greg Rowland, 51, had beaten her and held her […]
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· For those who cannot make it to South Lake Tahoe’s Fourth of July parade, Tahoe Production House will live stream it from 10-10:45am. Here is the link. · The Homewood Fine Arts and Crafts Festival is July 1-3 from 10am-5pm. · No fishing license will be required in California on July 2. · “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe” […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal In a move that a Renown Health executive described as a “game changer” for the community, the Reno-based healthcare network announced a partnership with several Stanford University health entities on Tuesday. The deal with Stanford Health Care, Stanford Children’s Health and Stanford Medicine expands the specialty services available to Renown […]
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By Joe Mathews Our state’s leaders keep asking communities to do more to make our local public schools better—even as they keep us in the dark about how those same schools are doing. In the 2013-14 school year, the state suspended the Academic Performance Index, or API, the chief tool Californians had for seeing how […]
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Six mosquito samples and one dead bird have tested positive for West Nile virus this week in Placer County. The mosquito samples were collected from sites along the county’s western border, from as far south as the north Elverta area, and as far north as Lincoln. The dead bird was collected from Rocklin. Mosquito numbers […]
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Fire restrictions on National Forest System lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin begin July 1 and will remain in effect until the official end of fire season. Campfires will be restricted to certain exempted recreation sites and other fire-related activities will be prohibited. Illegal and unattended campfires cause more than 90 percent of wildfires in […]
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By Associated Press It’s going to be a busy holiday weekend on the nation’s highways. A record 43 million Americans are expected to travel this Independence Day weekend, with the overwhelming majority driving, according to AAA, a car lobbying group and one of the nation’s largest travel agencies. This tops the joint record set last […]
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US Bank on Kingsbury Grade in Stateline was robbed this afternoon at gunpoint. The amount of money taken has not been disclosed. The suspect reportedly had a gun and passed a note to a teller at 3:19pm June 29. The suspect is described as a white man in his mid-20s, 6-feet-tall, blond hair, wearing a black fleece […]
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By Robert Kuo, Sacramento Bee The California Department of Fish and Wildlife posted two videos last week of a wolverine in the Tahoe National Forest captured by cameras earlier this year, stirring the same excitement that occurred in 2008 when a similarly rare California sighting occurred after an 86-year absence. The first video from this […]
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